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The colors of these charts show the percentage of undeveloped 

 or unimproved land worked out from census data. This represents 

 nothing but a compilation made from the census reports. This 

 darker color represents an area where 80 to 90 per cent is unim- 

 proved ; this represents 60 to 65 ; and here 60 to 80. If the black „ . 

 belt could be sorted out from this belt we would have in the black unimproved 

 belt an area where there is very little land not cultivated ; but since 

 the statistics are given according to counties, and since each county 

 includes this land plus the land lying outside of the black belt, I was 

 unable to get the percentage of unimproved land in the black belt. 



In Mississippi, in the southeastern part of the state, there is 

 rather a large area, of which, according to the census reports more 

 than 90 per cent is unimproved. Another belt 80 to 90; in this 

 region 60 to 80; and here two areas are essentially the same 45 to 

 65, 50 to 65. 



In Louisiana the unimproved area lies in the southwestern 

 part of the state. More than 90 per cent of the area is unim- 

 proved, and a large part of that is quite smooth land. Here are 

 two areas where 80 to 90 and 65 to 80 is unimproved ; and over 

 here is an area where a large part is unimproved, and becomes less 

 and less as we go northward. 



In Arkansas, there is no county — there are parts of the state-^ 

 but no whole county where more than 90 per cent is unimproved. 

 There are plenty of areas — small areas^— where more than 90 per 

 cent is unimproved, but no single county, so that the lowest per- 

 centage of unimproved land there is 80 to 90 per cent, and then, 

 lying along the other side of that, we have land which has a higher 

 percentage of unimproved. 



There are two centers in Arkansas with a similarity in unim- 

 proved land; one in the. Southern mountain region; the other 

 in the high plateau of the North, extending beyond the sand stone 

 plateau over into the redlands of the North. 



In Texas you see a large area in the southeastern part of the 

 state, which extends to the area in Louisiana, where more than 90 

 per cent is unimproved. 



The white areas here represent level land ; it is not coastal plain, 

 and therefore not pine land ; and they are not taken into considera- 

 tion. That is the level land of Arkansas; in other words, it is not 

 pine land. In Texas I only included a small part; and in Alabama 

 I included all the coastal plain, but the northern mountain region 



